If Orpheus had loved Eurydice with the same conviction that Temidayo Oniosun brought to the space industry, he might not have looked back. As a teenager preparing for his university entrance exam, he was deeply interested in the space sector. “I’ve always wanted to start a company in the space industry,” he said. He meant

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Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecoms operator, plans to extend data minimisation across its mobile money service M-PESA by late 2026, expanding controls that limit the exposure of customer phone numbers in mobile money transactions. The change will cover bank transfers and merchant payments, according to the telco’s chief financial services officer, Esther Waititu, who spoke on

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On March 12, Rwanda’s Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) launched Innovate Rwanda, a digital platform designed to connect startups, investors, talent, and ecosystem support organisations across the country, on the sidelines of the recently concluded Innovative Fintech Forum in Kigali, the country’s capital. “We want it to be a platform where startups can discover

Ibukun Adedeji is a technologist and product leader working on large-scale financial and operational systems across Africa. He is currently a Product Manager at Moniepoint, where he contributes to products that power millions of businesses through payments and financial infrastructure. Over the past several years, Ibukun has worked across lending, payments, commerce, and investments business

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Every evening in Nairobi, a transaction happens that no algorithm has ever improved upon. Njeri watches the day thin out. The sukumawiki that was KES20 (roughly $0.15) at noon becomes KES10 ($0.08) at dusk. The bread that didn’t sell moves quietly to the woman two stalls away. The pig farmer swings by on Tuesdays. The

Luno, the UK-born digital asset firm that allows users to trade tokenised US stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and buy, sell, and earn yield for holding cryptocurrencies, has launched prediction markets for users in South Africa and Nigeria, two of its four operational markets in Africa. Launched in partnership with Limitless, a US-based prediction market

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The first thing that stands out with Bolt’s three-wheelers is the colour.  In Lagos, where tricycles, popularly called ‘keke,’ are uniformly yellow and rounded, Bolt’s tricycle arrives in green and is noticeably square. In a swarm of Lagos tricycles, it is the one you spot immediately because it refuses to blend in. The door is